What method of storage and retrieval for a Windows Mobile device application would you suggest?

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Hello all,

I am currently making a Windows Mobile device application and I need to store some data and then retrieve this data at a later point in time.

The data I am saving consists of 1 Date, 18 Integers and 1 Float.

The number of 'records' I suppose you could call them, that will ever be saved will be limited to 156. (1 per week for 3 years, in this application)

I have been pondering would it be more efficient to save these 'records', in the form of just the data types or as an object/instance of the class that contains them.

I have considered saving this data in XML, LIST(as the object or the data types) or an array, etc. But being honest I would not know which would work best.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations you guys can make. I'm not after the 'most' efficient manner of storing this data, just a method that is considered to be 'reasonable', but without to much of a slow down caused on the device.

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Posted 25-Apr-10 11:16am

Walby

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Pete O'Hanlon · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-25T11:46:00

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What you could do is serialize the data to disk by marking your collection class as Serializable. As you aren't using too much data, the serialization/deserialization will not take very long and is very simple. Just write the class out to isolated storage, and job done.

Posted 25-Apr-10 11:46am

Pete O'Hanlon